This image is of Deep Cove on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet. Deep cove is one of the few places where houses can be built right next to the beach. As a result properties tend to be large and expensive. The link below is to another image of Deep Cove taken from the north.
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Laos Topographic Map 1:200,000 Russian Soviet Military by Landmine Mapper
Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, and it lies mostly between latitudes 14° and 23°N (a small area is south of 14°), and longitudes 100° and 108°E. Its thickly forested landscape consists mostly of rugged mountains, th...

The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge is a 137 m (449 ft) high and 812 m (2,664 ft) long cable-stayed road bridge across the River Thames in south east England. It was opened in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II.
The bridge is the southbound element of the A282 Dartford Crossing, joining the two ends of the M25 clockwise carriagewa...

This was taken a few minutes after sunrise with the sun just clearing the Cascade Mountains and lighting up the overnight haze and low lying fog patches. No retouching was done the color is close to reality.
To see what the conditions were like about 15 minutes before this image was started, phase take a look at this...

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As a geologist sometimes you're just driving along when Wham! out of nowhere you spot something interesting in a roadcut. In the best of circumstances there's nobody tailgating you and there's a pullout where you can get off the road to photograph the roadcut. This was one of those good situations.
I think this is...